{
  "title": "Mastodon gained 70,000 users after Musk’s Twitter takeover. I joined them",
  "byline": "Wilfred Chan",
  "dir": null,
  "excerpt": "The platform is home to a devoted base of left-leaning communities – and no one billionaire can control it",
  "siteName": "The Guardian",
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  "publishedDate": "2022-11-02T05:00:52.000Z",
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